Sean Guo

Now live: “People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines” by Sean Guo, Yiwen Zhong, and Xiaoqing Hu misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/peop...

People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines | HKS Misinformation Review The development of artificial intelligence (AI) allows rapid creation of AI-synthesized images. In a pre-registered experiment, we examine how properties of AI-synthesized images influence belief in m...

Sharing our new paper here! People talk about how deepfakes propel us into the post truth era, and we provide some empirical evidence for this:

“People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines”

Does AI improve or undercut academic scholarship?

A new study finds that academics who use AI increased both the quantity & quality of their academic scholarship and it appears to reduces inequality (helping junior and non-english speaking scholars the most).
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02408

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored

Quite proud of this paper, which just received the journal's APA Editor's Choice award 😊

Big thanks to my coauthors Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek,
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social, John Cook, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @lewan.bsky.social

Specific media literacy tips improve AI-generated visual misinformation discernment - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications Images generated using artificial intelligence (AI) have become increasingly realistic, sparking discussions and fears about an impending “infodemic” where we can no longer trust what we see on the in...

Happy to share our new research on AI-generated visual misinformation - we find that specific media literacy tips about AI images improve misinformation discernment over general tips about fake news.

Feedback and comments welcome!

doi.org/10.1186/s412...

#psychsky #phdsky

Social scientists should not use chat interfaces when using LLMs in their research: they are impressively inefficient, and obscure/impose important methodological decisions that require thought.

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Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios.

In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Short version: It didn't really work.

Want to add an LLM chatbot to your Qualtrics surveys? Here's a step-by-step guide showing exactly how to do this with AWS Bedrock joshuakalla.github.io/llm_persuasi...

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now open-access—free to read, download, and share.

the-hsp.com

Can dialogues with AI systems help humans better discern visual misinformation? The widespread emergence of manipulated news media content poses significant challenges to online information integrity. This study investigates whether dialogues with AI about AI-generated images and...

From some MIT Media Lab folks...

"Results show that AI interaction significantly
boosts participants’ accuracy in identifying real versus fake news content from approximately
60% to 90%."

Though findings suggest AI interaction "may not produce lasting improvements that transfer to novel examples".

Providing an alternative explanation improves misinformation rejection and alters event-related potentials during veracity judgements The continued influence effect of misinformation (CIE) occurs when misinformation affects memory and decision making even after correction. Here, we e…

Excited to share my first first-author paper! We found that providing alternative explanations to misinformation improved recollection during veracity judgements, measured by the P300 ERP. Thanks to my supervisor and colleagues for their help!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#phdsky #psych

Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful

🚨New WP🚨
We examine news sharing on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky!
osf.io/preprints/ps...

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,537,491, Sean Guo ‪@seanguo.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 16, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,537,491!

Thanks for the recommendations! The postdoc feed does look like a great source.

How are y’all keeping updated with the latest postdoc openings? Any good site or feed recs? #phdsky

Even Disinformation Experts Don’t Know How to Stop It Researchers have learned plenty about misinformation and how it spreads. But they’re still struggling to figure out how to stop it.

Perhaps unsurprising given I research misinfo interventions, but I strongly disagree with this article. If you thought that small tweaks were going to fix the misinfo problem, then yes, you'll be disappointed. But, come on, we all know there is no magic bullet. 1/

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/t...

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation - Nature Human Behaviour Kozyreva et al. review evidence from individual-level interventions for fighting online misinformation featured in 81 scientific papers. They classify the interventions in nine different types and sum...

A typology of successful misinformation interventions: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation - Nature Human Behaviour Kozyreva et al. review evidence from individual-level interventions for fighting online misinformation featured in 81 scientific papers. They classify the interventions in nine different types and sum...

Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts, led by the amazing Anastasia Kozyreva.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am advertising a postdoc position to work on a cognitive psych project on misinformation 👇
Please share!

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

#psychscisky
#cogsci
#phdsky

Excited to share our new preprint on how different properties of AI-generated images impacts misinformation belief. All feedback and comments welcome :)

Shout out to @brionyswire.bsky.social for providing great comments on the manuscript!

osf.io/2p64a

How many stories of “automated systems” and AI end up just being people in other countries paid peanuts to work remotely?

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90 He found that people rely on shortcuts that often lead them to make wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest.

Dr. Kahneman’s research debunked the notion of “homo economicus,” the “economic man” who was considered a rational being who acts out of self-interest.
Instead, people rely on intellectual shortcuts that often go against their own best interest. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

where are the other Phd students here on #bluesky? #phdsky #academia ? 😭 I can't be going through this alone

Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it? | Shorenstein Center This event was part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern Univ...

In case you missed it last week, here's a recording of my talk "Misinformation: Why is it a problem and what can we do about it?" See what we found in our giant collaborative megastudy testing 9 different online misinformation interventions!

shorensteincenter.org/new-event/mi...

Cool research! I worked in Nicholas’ lab when I was in college, surprised and happy to see his name pop up here!

This was shared quite a bit as a preprint, and now it's published! (and #OA)
“What will you do after?”: Lessons from Academia and the World Beyond

I am glad QJEP appreciated the benefit of publishing this at a psych society journal (rather than an HE one)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Behind F1's Velvet Curtain If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...